Category: News

The U-S Department of Housing and Urban Development will make $5 million available for the purchase of carbon monoxide detectors in public housing units, and that announcement is being hailed by Tim Scott, South Carolina U-S senator. Scott says it amounts to “concrete steps being taken to ensure the safety of families across South Carolina and the nation.” It’s the […]

The property set aside for Oconee’s long-planned memorial to 9-11 will likely soon take on the looks of a construction zone, according to project leader Brandon Shirley. The process is underway to obtain the necessary permits, and Shirley hopes grading can start in a few weeks. Contractor for the memorial is the Trehel Corporation. The memorial is planned for the […]

A jury has been picked in the Oconee General Sessions Court for the case of South Carolina versus John Paul Parks.  The defendant was arrested by the Seneca police in May 2017.  Parks is charged with possession of methamphetamine.  Judge Sprouse set the start of the trial for tomorrow morning.

Prisma Health – Upstate breaks ground tomorrow at Oconee Memorial Hospital for a new residency program.  Family Medicine Residency – Oconee will train family medicine doctors with a special focus on the care most needed in rural communities with an emphasis on healthy lifestyle and disease prevention.  The new building will house primary care, pediatrics, women’s health, maternity care and […]

Three Westminster transformers will be temporarily taken off line late at night next week for service work.  The city of Westminster says it intends to make the outage as brief as possible.  The outage is planned for between four and six hours starting at 11 o’clock Saturday night, June 1.  The announcement states:  “Servicing this bank of 4400 kV transformers […]

With the approach of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Law Enforcement Division will conduct courtesy boat inspections at public boat landings across the state. One of those courtesy inspections will take place at Twelve Mile on Lake Hartwell in Pickens County from 10 am to 12 noon Sunday, May 26. SCDNR officers […]

Today’s meeting of the Walhalla Rotary Club will recognize top academic students at the local high school.  Among those students to be recognized will be four seniors who are repeat Rotary Scholars:  Emma Sauer, Rachel Twitty, Elliot Wechter, and Kimberly Burgess.  The Rotary Scholars Program was established by Walter Moore, in memory of his wife, Lucille Bellotte Moore, and his […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help to locate the two young males who are the suspects in this morning’s break-in at Countryside Exxon #2, 80550 West Oak Highway, Westminster. They are believed to be white males between the ages of 15-30. They arrived at the crime scene in a red Ford F150. During the break-in, they […]

An accident at the 3 o’clock hour this afternoon in Bountyland involved a car and a school bus.  Reports from the accident scene, the highway 28 Blue Ridge Boulevard traffic light intersection, indicate that all students on Seneca High bus 411 escaped injury.

Once again, the food service provider for Oconee public schools will prepare and distribute free lunch time meals to children through the teen years (18 and younger) at various locations countywide.  Food service provider Sodexo will prepare hot, nutritious meals on a schedule that will follow June 3-August 3, with the exception of the July 4 week.  The following locations […]